Serena Williams Managed To Beat Christina McHale after Feeling Ill from Eating Dog Food

By Jenn Loro - 14 May '16 11:25AM

Athletes do have special diets in order to stay on top of their game but Serena Williams may have taken things a bit extreme when she tried a spoonful of her pet dog's food that consisted of mouth-watering salmon with rice dish. Since then, the world number just regretted how bad it feels to eat dog food. Nevertheless, she still managed to beat Christina McHale in the Italian Open.

According to CNN, the 21-time-grand slam champion was curious at the salmon and rice mix worth $17 that she ordered for her three-year-old Yorkshire Terrier at the hotel she was staying at during the Italian Open in Rome. The special menu for her chip looks good enough to eat so she tried a spoonful of it.

"I force-swallowed it, said the 34-year-old American. I don't know what they put in these dog foods, but Chip liked it. I don't think it's consumable for humans. They should have wrote that! So now I feel really sick. It was just a spoonful, but I don't feel so good," the 34-year-old American tennis player said as quoted by BBC News.

The doggy menu tasted awful like a 'house-cleaner thing' according to the Williams which, of course, forced her to make an urgent toilet trip to flush the dog food off her system a few hours later.

Back to the Italian Open, the whole dog food disaster did not slow her down as Williams defeated Christina McHale 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 in the third round in Rome, The Guardian reported. Her dog cannot be reached for comment at the time of this writing.

So why did Serena Williams fell ill after eating a spoonful of dog food?

To begin with, dogs have diet quite different from humans. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), difference is largely due to the fact that human food requires stricter health and food safety regulations. Despite having similar general components, dog food contains some components that are aren't suitable for human consumption either in parts, proportions or additives, Forbes Magazine reported.